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Mt. Sinai $68,000 effective 1/07
I can only speak from my experience and what others have specifically told me, but I do think that 12 patients on med-surg would be an extreme case, perhaps where someone called in sick...I don't think that would be considered a "typical" load...I worked a "step-down floor" and had between 5 and 9 patients...the contract specifies one-to-seven nurse-to-patient ratio, ...
That seems extremely unsafe to me. I work in Texas and at my hospital they just raised the nurse to patient ration on med-surg to 1:5 on days and on nights 1:6. Before that, we never went over 1:4 on med-surg.
Our step-down is mandated 1:3 nurse to pt ratio, and ICU 1:2 and 1:1.
orangern10
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Starting salary for any long island hospitals would be greatly appreciated :), like LIJ, NSLIJ, Winthrope, thank you!